The Sudoku Effect: Universities in the Vicious Circle of Bureaucracy by Stefan Kühl.

This book shows that the introduction of the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) of credit points as a new accounting unit at universities has led to increased bureaucracy and the schoolmaster-style regimentation of Bachelor’s and Master’s courses. It explains how, due to the pressure of having t...

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Main Author: Kühl, Stefan (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Series:SpringerBriefs in Education,
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505 0 |a 1. Higher Education Reform and the Resultant increased Complexity – An introduction -- 2. Small Points, Great Effects – On the Introduction of a New Artificial Currency -- 3. The Sudoku Effect – On Degree Arithmetic -- 4. Unwilling Recipients of Spoon-feeding – The Unwanted Side Effects of University Reform -- 5. Escape into Control Deviation -- 6. The Bureaucratic Vicious Circle – The Intensification of the Sudoku Effect through Permanent Reforms -- 7. The Fruitless Search for the ‘Guilty’ – The Reasons why Nobody has to feel Responsible for the Effects of the Bologna Reform -- 8. What to do? Dealing with the Side Effects of the Bologna Reform. 
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